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" There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. "
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" There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. "
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" Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. "
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" Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. "
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" Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. "
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" Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. "
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" Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. "
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" God screens us evermore from premature ideas. "
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" I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. "
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